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• In the middle of the night I am awakened by a sound. I sit up abruptly in bed. I hear it again. It's music. Wait, it sounds like the ice cream man, in our house. Is this some kind of twisted nightmare? The flipping ice cream man, breaking in to chop us all up in our beds to the tune of 'Zippity Do Dah'?... My heart slows. I remember. There is no psycho ice cream man here. It is just our new musical soap dispenser.

  Deb Caletti

  Heart, Night, Men

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• He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, Twilight, Honor

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• Half-man, half-beast, all nightmare. The shapeshifter warrior form.

  Ilona Andrews

  Warrior, Men, Half

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.149, Penguin

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• best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Way, Faces, Deals

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• Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa, into the room, to soothe her, to love her. He came every night and sat with her. The first couple of times, he simply stayed - a stranger to kill the aloneness. A few nights after that, he whispered, "Shhh, I'm here, it's all right." After three weeks he held her. Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. The girl knew from the outset that Hans Hubermann would always appear midscream, and he would not leave. (36)

  Markus Zusak

  Girl, Couple, Night

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• Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?

  Saul Bellow

  Thinking, Life Is, Ninety

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• Thalia had been turned into a pine tree when she was 12. Me... well, i was doing my best not to follow her example. I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if i were ever in the verge of death—plankton, maybe. Or a floating patch of kelp.

  Rick Riordan

  Tree, Might, Example

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Your father wasn’t a positive influence on you, was he? (Simone) Being the god of nightmares, he wasn’t a warm fuzzy bunny. Unless you count Happy Bunny. Amazingly the two of them have a lot in common…And I have to say that I’ve developed a fondness for that pissy rodent. (Xypher)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Father, Two, Rodents

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• For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.

  Stephen King

  Sweat, Bed, Comfort

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

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• My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

  Suzanne Collins

  Romantic, Hunger For Love, Katniss

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.86, Scholastic Inc.

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• For a moment Ethan simply stares. Before him is the monster of his nightmares: his sister's murderer, the beast who robbed him of his greatest love. How easy, how fulfilling would it be to take Marduk's life? But the arrow in Ethan's fingers slips to the ground. "No. even revenge is too great an honor for you." As the night falls and brings an end to this long day of darkness, Marduk inhales his last staggered breath and his body turns to stone.

  Marianne Curley

  Revenge, Fall, Night

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• This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.

  Dan Simmons

  Support, Language, Breakdown

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• I see IT in the hallway. IT goes to Merryweather. IT is walking with Aubrey cheerleader. IT is my nightmare and I can't wake up.IT sees me. IT smiles and winks. Good thing my lips are stitched together or I'd throw up.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Together, Lips, Wake Up

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• Will holding a secret in your heart make it any less true? If you never tell, never speak of it, will it become only a dream, less than a dream, a nightmare half-remembered? Oh, if only the gods would be so good. (Catelyn)

  George R. R. Martin

  Dream, Heart, Secret

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1285, Bantam

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• I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Dream, People, Waking

  Elizabeth Scott (2011). “As I Wake”, p.116, Penguin

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• But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dream, Way, Night Circus

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• I’ve been here before, dreaming myself backwards, among grappling hooks of light. True to the seasons, I’ve lived every word spoken. Did I walk into someone’s nightmare?

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Dream, Light, Hook

  Yusef Komunyakaa (1998). “Thieves of Paradise”, p.14, Wesleyan University Press

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• In Syria, if [Bashar al-] Assad had just been a statesman and handed over the reigns in time, Syria would not be heading down the nightmare that it is today.

  Richard Branson

  Reign, Als, Today

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• Older homeless people are more likely to be women, because they don't have pensions and they are caretakers, so they withdraw from the workforce and end up having no pension if their husband leaves them, so the whole thing is just a nightmare.

  Patricia Arquette

  Husband, People, Homeless

  "Patricia Arquette: On Boyhood, Motherhood, and Womanhood". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In housing you have jingle mail and you can walk away and leave the bank holding the bag. In the case of student loans, the debt follows you through life, and the banks or government will turn it over to collection agencies that are not very nice people and can do all sorts of harassing things to you. It's becoming a nightmare.

  Michael Hudson

  Nice, Agency, Government

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• My daughter wrote a book. She is a New York Times Bestselling Author. Fabulous. Couldn't be more proud. She also has no health insurance. A 401 K? Dream on! My daughter left her stable corporate job to be a writer without dental benefits or a savings account, a.k.a. my worst nightmare.

  Kate Siegel

  Daughter, Dream, Jobs

  "Crazy Jewish Mother's Day with Kate Siegel and Kim Friedman". Interview with Penny Mann, www.amazonbookreview.com. April 18, 2016.

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• Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream, as something that pretended to exist while we were sleeping. And we will become subtly and profoundly indifferent towards all of life's setbacks and calamities. Those who die turned a corner, which is why we've stopped seeing them; those who suffer pass before us like a nightmare, if we feel, or like an unpleasant daydream, if we think. And even our own suffering won't be more than this nothingness.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Sleep, Thinking

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• Once Now You See Me proved that that tone could work, which I'm sure was a nightmare for them in post - is this too serious? Do we have to say that magic really does exist or not? - I can take that and have fun with the tone that they established.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Fun, Magic, Doe

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• Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Memories, War, Convince Us

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• I don't want to disappoint - that's a nightmare to me.

  Nas

  Want, Disappoint

  Source: www.wbur.org

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